Along the Natchez Trace

Monday, April 12, 2010

2009-10 Winter Tana Tour, the Ride North, Day Three

Started an hour later than yesterday, passed a time zone, lost an hour.

Red buds and dog woods really put on a show in Kentucky, further north, fields of yellow dandylions were special (even if they are weeds). Even saw some forsythia in full bloom.

Just south of Indianapolis we got one of those phone calls you don't like getting, the situation on the home front has gone from bad to mucho worse. I was very upset by the news, to say the least. SIGHHH

Man managed to get us around Indianapolis while I was on the phone trying to get some action on the home front. We were about to stop anyway, so pulled off just north of Indy, a small campground near Pendleton. We are off the road, again, safe. Cannot say sound, cause Carol, is NOT so sound. SIGHHH

To drive further would have been unwise and dangerous.

So, hopefully the doctors/hospital will keep Man's mother over night, we are off the road, trying to calm down, gosh, sleep might be hard tonight.

We have another 200 miles (give or take) to the stick built to do tomorrow. Man will have to turn on the water and a few other things before he can leave me there alone.

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" Living on Earth isn't cheap, but it does include a yearly free trip around the sun." (Source unknown.)

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt

"The only difference between a rut and a grave...is the depth."

Chinese proverb: "To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root."

"I sure wish they sold memory sticks for humans...I could use an upgrade."

"Don't let procrastination be your primary time management skill."

"If you are normal....no one will listen, If you're deranged....they will make you their leader."

"You're just jealous that the voices are talking to ME!"

"I'm quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service." (From George E. Woodberry)

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand." (From Henri Nouwen)

"Don't go where the road leads, rather go where there is no road and make a trail."

"Broken hearts are what give us strength, understanding and compassion."